Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-01-17

using Is causing your trouble, he will
be striking blow at your favorite
idol. II he uses the weed himself he
cannot do so gracefully, and he does
not try to convince you that tobacco
is the cause of all your trouble.
Besides the disturbances and dis
orders already mentioned as resulting
from the use of tobacco, men of re-
pute claim that it produces color
blindness, heart disease, cancer of
the lip and tongue, impaired muscu-
lar force, etc. As you value your
health, are you going to continue
drugging your system until you be-
come physical wreck!
The tobacco habit leads 10 drunk
enness in many cases. The effect Of
the two narcotics on the system are
nearly opposite. Alcohol is a slim
ulant, and tobacco a sedative. Thus
the German will sit all night by his
keg of beer and drink and smoke and
not become intoxicated. The alco-
hol in the beer excites the brain, and
the nicotine in the pipe allays tie ex-
citement. And so he goes on thro'
the night, alternately raising and low
ering the nervous scale. The man
whose system is lowered by drug
so much beyond the natural coudi-
ton, needs something to raise it to
the normal standard. In alcoholic
liquors lie finds what he needs, and
thus from one bad habit he acquires
two. Thus we see why the tobacco
user is in some cases a moderate
drinker instead of the confirmed
drunkard is because his tobacco acts
so powerfully upon the brain that the
organ is deadened to the effects OF
alcohol. Although tobacco users are
not always addicted to stImulants,
| venture the assertion that in your
acquaintance there is not a drunkard
who is not a user of tobacco. To-
bacco does not produce alcoholism
from its similar effects, but from its
opposite action upon the brain and
nerve centers. Socially tobacco
makes a man hog, He may be a
gentleman in every other respect, but
before he is aware of it, be is COM
mitting offences which he would not
under any other conditions. How
does he do this? He comes into your
office with his lighted cigar and poi
sons the air; be goes into your store
and leaves his odor clinging to your
goods be goes out upon the street
and pours into your face in passing a
volume of smoke. IL he chews he
deluges everything he comes in con-
tact with. with ais amber hued saliva.
He would not steal, yet when he
the church or lecture, he robs those
about him of Gods greatest blessing,
pure air. A man may be Christian
and chew and smoke, but my faith
in him would be small. There Is a
certain passage somewhere reading
somewhat as follows: "Be ye there
fore perfect even as your Father which
is in Heaven is perfect" / can't see
how a man can be perfect whose whole
system is saturated with poison. We
have type of purity which l should
hate to think of defiled with tobacco.
If men can use it and remain pure,
why might not our Saviour and his
disciples have used it? 1t would
shock me TO read that be took cigars,
blessed, passed them and said, "this
is my body which was buried, take,
smoke, and as often as ye do this,
do it in remembrance Of me-" The
thought is repulsive 10 every instinct
of our nature. What more filthy can
proceed out of a mans mouth than
tobacco iuiceF | love the picture OF
Sandalphon which Longfellow has
left US:
But serene in the raptuTous thrOng,
Unmoved BY the rush Of the throng,
With eyes unimpassioaed and slow,
Among the dead aagels, the deGlhless
sanrzlphon stands listening breathess
To sounds that ascend from below.
From the spirits on earth that adore,
Prom the souls that entrezt and implore
In the fervor aud passion Of prayer
Prom the b arts that are broken with losses,
And weary With dragging sheF crosses
Too heavy for mortals 70 bear.
And be gathers the prayers a. be stAnds,
And they change into flowers In his hands.
Into garlands Of purple and red,
And beneath the great arch of the portal,
Through the streets Of the City Immortal
Is waited the fragrance they she'd.
How many Of you can conceive OF
the fragrance emanating from such
garland arising from lips saturated
with tobacco splttle, ana emitted over
a spittoon? The confirmed tobacco
devotee loses his capability Of fami-
ly and social enjoyment. He will
forget the pleasures Of the home cir
Gle to sit in beastly stolidlty 10
reeking smoking room. II be trav-
els he will leave wife, children and
and regardless Of the
beauties Of scenery through which he
is passing. will shut himself 10 filthy
smoking car and puff uptil h.s BRAIN
ree.s.
Why don't our physicians, when
patient is suffering from the effects